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Show NECKWEAR IS VALUABLE AID; DASHING TYPES FOR SPORTS OK A LI. the details that add Interest In-terest and variety to the season's modes, neckwear Is the most Important, Im-portant, and In the company of neckwear neck-wear performers, the scarf continues to play the stellar role. It is worn from morning to night on the street and everywhere else, but it Is especially espe-cially Important as an accessory to ( those sports and semi-sports costumes that are just now mounting to the zenith of their popularity and evening dress can't be discussed without including in-cluding scarfs and shawls. For street and sports wear, printed silks, plain and figured georgette and chiffon, and light crepes, are the favorite fa-vorite mediums for scarfs. But hand-Vatated hand-Vatated scarfs of chiffon or georgette of ribbon or a cooler affair consisting of high crushed collar of lace or crepe de chine with jabot at the front, cascaded cas-caded from neck to girdle. In a little Journey through the field of sports clothes It soon becomes evident evi-dent that color Is the most Important Impor-tant and the most interesting detail of the new models. In outer garments, coats and capes divide honors, but In dresses for sports or semi-sports wear the two-piece mode holds, practically, a monopoly of attention. For variety's sake designs fall back upon the management man-agement of Colors and have taken "Make It snappy" for their slogan. They are doing some wonderful and beautiful things with the aid of fabrics that are woven In unaccustomed and f: :, V I ' , v C J - ftT- , - ' ' survji H?.? , 7 I If I f if , VV I eaer delicate colors like pastel ,.f " tweeds and knitted materials. Two-Diece dresses VARIETY IN NECKWEAR are to be reckoned with for both day and evening wear. Pastel grounds with figures in high colors, futuristic designs and new batik treatments in more definite figures, are among the Interesting novelties shown. For street and sports wear the scarf is most successful when it shows some relationship In coloring or design to the hat or some other item of the toilette. This is apparent In the scarf of white silk, figured with black, worn with a tailored hat, as shown at the top of the picture and in the combination combina-tion of white and black in the hat at the right, worn with scarf of white fox fur. But the scarf is not always In the limelight the possessor of a pretty neck may dress it with a round collar of fine batiste edged with lace, as shown in figure at the left, or with a collar of organdie finished with lace and worn with cuffs to match. Or A gayer delicate colors like pastel tweeds and knitted materials. Two-piece dresses are developed with plain or plaited skirts, with plaited models predominating and much variety and Ingenuity in the disposal dis-posal of the plaits. They are worn with jumpers, jackets or sweaters and these have long, close-fitting sleeves and "V" shaped or scarf necklines. Natural kasha is used in border effects in handsome skirt, and jacket suits of colored knitted materials. A very effective ef-fective combination appears in a dress of caramel-colored knitted goods, the short skirt having a wide border at the bottom of kasha and a split up the front, faced back with kasha and revealing re-vealing a panel of the knitted goods underneath. Another fancy for sports wear shows a plaited skirt in white or a light color worn with a contrasting Jacket. A white 6kirt, blue Jacket and red vagabond hat prove effective, with a red handkerchief and bouton-niere bouton-niere to match the hat. Color Is the main attraction of the simple sports coat shown here. It Is made of a soft coating In peach color t i : ; !x . if i i SIMPLE SPORTS COAT the may choose a collar and vestee of venlce, mllan or novelty laces, or collar col-lar and sleeve sets of net and lnce. On the other hand or on the other neck which Is not so pretty one might choose a collar of ribbon and ostrich feathers In bltxk and white, with ties with fine crossbar in deep browu. The badger fur collar accomplishes a love-by love-by the double-strap slippers of kid, which may repeat the colors in th coat or tones in the fur collar. JCLIA BOTTOMI.EY, (& 1926. Western Newspaper Vnlon.) |